The past couple of years have been fraught with increasingly annoying, at times potentially dangerous health challenges. I thought my warranty was up ten years ago. I didn’t have a clue. I’ve had to have surgery to correct surgery. I’ve endured imploding aches and pains in parts of my body I never knew existed, suffered…

One balmy evening on vacation my husband and I closed down a restaurant chatting with a lovely couple also from Los Angeles. The husband had recently completed sound editing on both the O.J. Simpson scripted series with Cuba Gooding Jr., and ROOTS 2016.  I told him it was ironic that my vacation reading of choice…

Disappointment is a drag.   A friend or loved one let’s you down once again.  You over or undercook the turkey on your first Thanksgiving with the in-laws.  You fumble a pass, blow the putt, or shoot an air ball in a high stakes game.  Maybe the job you were counting on that everyone told…

I woke up the other morning to the sounds of battle.  My husband was in hand-to-hand combat with the cordless phone stuck in the trenches behind the bedside table.  They say “cordless”, umhum.  The cords and attaching wires to the wall socket were winning as he rattled them in a tug of war that ended…

This Sunday is Easter, so it is highly appropriate to make the public confession that I do, indeed, believe in miracles.  They come in all shapes and sizes and they don’t necessarily have to be the parting the seas variety.  God mostly speaks to me in whispers of the heart that many would call intuition. …

This past Sunday it literally rained cats and dogs at our canyon home.  Well, mostly cat.  My husband discovered a mewing brown tabby curled up in the dog’s toy container, safe and dry by our covered back door.  “Gordy’” had a name tag and hailed from the beach an hour away.  The frantic owner, who…

It is 2016 and another year greets us in all it’s glory or furor depending on your outlook.  My husband and I were blessed to be able to travel to the South Pacific for 2 weeks in November and December.  We arrived home Dec 6th late into the season so I opted for a “Christmas…